The State of the University Press
"There's a pretty pervasive downward price pressure on content being sold," says Johns Hopkins University Press director Kathleen Keane. "There's a lot of change happening, and we're trying to navigate our way through it. Although some of it," she says, "is good, exciting change."
At Johns Hopkins, for instance, the digital revolution has recently delivered some of those big and exciting changes to its 20-year-old Project Muse, a digital aggregator known for its broad collection of specialized scholarly journals, and which is monetized by selling access to libraries. Recently, digital editions of university press books have been added to that collection, in the process making 25,000 ebooks available to scholars worldwide.
Dan Eldridge is a journalist and guidebook author based in Philadelphia's historic Old City district, where he and his partner own and operate Kaya Aerial Yoga, the city's only aerial yoga studio. A longtime cultural reporter, Eldridge also writes about small business and entrepreneurship, travel, and the publishing industry. Follow him on Twitter at @YoungPioneers.
